grandmaster flash (and the furious five?)
a 2nd for: nirvana; possibly faith no more
electronic music: kwaftwerk
the sex pistols just missed it in terms of the time limits, but look what they did - it's not just about talent anymore...
spice girls took the girl group to unnecessary levels of fame and revised mainstream pop

For the start of the 80's hair band thing, I would site Van Halen rather than Def Leopard. However this started in 1978. Bon Jovi was the first to really take the crazy poofy hair to the extreme. However Van Halen clearly has their roots in the Led Zeppelin style, but further removed from the blues. Kind of like the relationship between Black Sabbath and Judas Priest.

I am going to go a in a different direction. I will site an obscure band called Venom. They really launched thrash and black metal, releasing their first album back in 1981. Metalica was the first to fuse the heavy metal style of Judas Priest and Iron Maiden with the fast energy of punk bands like the Misfits.

There is of course Run DMC and Nirvana as people have mentioned. There is also Ministry who took electronic music in a new, very heavy direction.

I think the thread will also show the differences in American influential bands vs what everybody over the world thinks. In America country, rock, pop and rap dominate the airwaves. I'm not sure about other places but supposedly two bands I really dig named Nightwish and HIM are pretty mainstream in Finland or Norway or wherever they are from (not sure exactly), but for the most part relatively unknown here in America. The only technoish band I can think of, The Crystal Method, might be an influence on plenty of techno bands (I am not saying they are just using them for an example), but since here in america techno pales in comparsion to the four I mentioned earlier, they aren't very influential by comparison. So, that's why I guess there is a rock/pop/rap bias

Someone should start a thread on the most destructive influences in music over the past 30 years. Just off the top of my head I can think of autotune, Disney, boy bands, music videos, American Idol and Guitar Hero.

Someone should start a thread on the most destructive influences in music over the past 30 years. Just off the top of my head I can think of autotune, Disney, boy bands, music videos, American Idol and Guitar Hero.

Have you noticed that to have a successful video you have to be a hot looking women, or at least have one in your video? What would happen if Aretha Franklin or Janis Joplin started today? You would never hear them.

And this is the reason for this thread. I have no clue about techno-music. Honestly I think it is a bunch of crap, but I bet some of the old timers say the same stuff about what I suggested.

I do remember Front 242 back in the 80s. Did they pioneer the techno movement?

I do love a good polka band. Just ask the 100's of people I scared at the last festival I attended.

Front 242 aren't techno, but they were one of the first to do a type of music that evolved into the European techno scene. It was called Electronic Body Music for those of you that care. It paved the way for some of the best European techno we have today, like The Hacker and Blackstrobe

Techno was very much an American invention, started in Detroit in the 80s.

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